Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig—and a steel hypodermic needle.

...

Presents a collection of stories that lays bare the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.

Autumn Rain is back to work, along with handsome detective Shannon Marton, but this time her investigation is person. She must prove whether or not Cody Beckett is responsible for the disappearance of a young girl. Secrets, lies, missing evidence and her own volatile feeling regarding Cody muddy the case until they aren't sure whom to trust. Soon Autumn and Shannon are funning out of time to save their own lives and the lives of more than one little...

Pastry chef, Tess Crawford, thought moving from Chicago to quiet Silver Springs, Arizona would simplify her life. When her cheating ex-fiance shows up she decides to take control and solve a mystery with the help of friends and frenemies alike.

When a hostile Third World country begins to receive military training and nuclear technology from foreign nations, Charley Castillo and his team investigate only to be abandoned by the U.S. government and placed on hit lists throughout the world.

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.

Two years ago, her husband died. And Betsy’s life changed forever. John’s death drew her into a world she didn’t know existed—a world of secret organizations where good and evil are constantly at war over the freedom of the American people. A world that constantly challenges her integrity, her loyalty to her country, and her willingness to sacrifice for what she knows is right. Now, she has been called upon to help expose a group of...

"Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, 'Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.' Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...